Abstract
Ever since its publication in 1953, The Crucible has attracted much attention for its tragic theme and vivid characterization. Reviews on The Crucible have been numerous and various in approaches. The present study mainly adopts pragmatic theories as its analytic approaches and analyzes the dialogues in The Crucible. It intends to find out how characters achieve their communicative purposes when they produce their utterances. Moreover, it is expected that this study may help shed some light on the pragmatic approach to the interpretation of drama. In this study, 16 fragments of dialogues are taken as the data for analysis. This study applies the Speech Acts Theory, the turn-control strategies, the Cooperative Principle, the Politeness Principle and the methods of Critical Discourse Analysis in data analysis. The turn-control strategies could help us learn how and why the character yields or claims a turn, and help us understand the communicative strategies of the participants. In a drama, dialogues between the characters are important ways of completing certain speech acts. The analysis of the dialogues may help us understand the real intentions of the characters. The present study carries implications for English teaching, the appreciation of drama and daily communication. Teaching turn-control strategies to students can help them communicate more successfully. The study of the theories and methods of Critical Discourse Analysis may improve students’ critical language awareness. The application of pragmatic theories to the appreciation of drama contributes to the revelation of the real intentions of characters, and helps us understand how the playwright displays the story, portrays the characters and expresses his /her intentions through various language skills. Keywords : Key words: Pragmatic Analysis; Speech Acts; Turn-control Strategies; Critical Discourse Analysis Arthur Miller, The Crucible . DOI : 10.7176/JLLL/61-06 Publication date :October 31 st 2019
Highlights
The main objective in the study is to apply a pragmatic approach including Austin's speech act theory (1962) and Searle's contributions (1975) to evaluate the character relationship, the turn-control strategies, the Cooperative Principle, the Politeness Principle and the methods of Critical Discourse Analysis in data analysis
Mey (1993: 236) in his Pragmatics: An Introduction puts forward such questions as what is the significance of pragmatics for the study of written text? How does literature relate to pragmatics? It is commonly agreed that pragmatics studies the role played by language users
In the previous chapters, the thesis has conducted a pragmatic analysis of dialogues in The Crucible
Summary
The main objective in the study is to apply a pragmatic approach including Austin's speech act theory (1962) and Searle's contributions (1975) to evaluate the character relationship, the turn-control strategies, the Cooperative Principle, the Politeness Principle and the methods of Critical Discourse Analysis in data analysis. Lowe uses the speech–act distinctions between an utterance’s illocutionary force and its intended and actual perlocutionary effects to show in various ways how Tituba’s confession is ‘unhappy’, which compiled a number of distinct research work in the new interdisciplinary field Among these researches is Amal Gouda Abdel Aziz , Ph.D, (2014): Social Hysteria versus Individual Dilemma: A Pragmatic Study of Character Relationship In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. He presented study attempts to examine the relationship of husband, John Proctor, and wife, Elizabeth Proctor, in Arthur Miller's play The Crucible (1953) by clarifying how their use of language in communicating with each other reflects the nature and the development of their tensed relationship. The current speaker asks questions and the listener self-select to be the speaker
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